Rethinking Languages Education

Rethinking Languages Education
Author: Ruth Arber
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351608681

Rethinking Languages Education assembles innovative research from experts in the fields of sociocultural theory, applied linguistics and education. The contributors interrogate innovative and recent thinking and broach controversies about the theoretical and practical considerations that underpin the implementation of effective Languages pedagogy in twenty-first-century classrooms. Crucially, Rethinking Languages Education explores established understandings about language, culture and education to provide a more comprehensive and flexible understanding of Languages education that responds to local classrooms impacted by global and transnational change, and the politics of language, culture and identity. Rethinking Languages Education focuses on questions about ways that we can develop farsighted and successful Languages education for diverse students in globalised contexts. The response to these questions is multi-layered, and takes into account the complex interactions between policy, curriculum and practice, as well as their contention and implementation. In doing so, this book addresses and integrates innovative perspectives of contemporary theory and pedagogy for Languages, TESOL and EAL/D education. It includes diverse discussions around practice, and addresses issues of the dominance of prestige Languages programs for ‘minority’ and ‘heritage’ languages, as well as discussing controversies about the current provision of English and Languages programs around the world.

Rethinking Bilingual Education

Rethinking Bilingual Education
Author: Elizabeth Barbian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781937730734

In this collection of articles, teachers bring students' home languages into their classrooms-from powerful bilingual social justice curriculum to strategies for honoring students' languages in schools that do not have bilingual programs. Bilingual educators and advocates share how they work to keep equity at the center and build solidarity between diverse communities. Teachers and students speak to the tragedy of languages loss, but also about inspiring work to defend and expand bilingual programs. Book jacket.

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners

Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners
Author: Jim Cummins
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 603
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1800413602

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory – Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory – in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept.

Rethinking Languages Education

Rethinking Languages Education
Author: Ruth Arber
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351608673

Rethinking Languages Education assembles innovative research from experts in the fields of sociocultural theory, applied linguistics and education. The contributors interrogate innovative and recent thinking and broach controversies about the theoretical and practical considerations that underpin the implementation of effective Languages pedagogy in twenty-first-century classrooms. Crucially, Rethinking Languages Education explores established understandings about language, culture and education to provide a more comprehensive and flexible understanding of Languages education that responds to local classrooms impacted by global and transnational change, and the politics of language, culture and identity. Rethinking Languages Education focuses on questions about ways that we can develop farsighted and successful Languages education for diverse students in globalised contexts. The response to these questions is multi-layered, and takes into account the complex interactions between policy, curriculum and practice, as well as their contention and implementation. In doing so, this book addresses and integrates innovative perspectives of contemporary theory and pedagogy for Languages, TESOL and EAL/D education. It includes diverse discussions around practice, and addresses issues of the dominance of prestige Languages programs for ‘minority’ and ‘heritage’ languages, as well as discussing controversies about the current provision of English and Languages programs around the world.

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
Author: Leketi Makalela
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2021-06-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1800412320

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Rethinking Heritage Language Education

Rethinking Heritage Language Education
Author: Peter Pericles Trifonas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107437628

A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education. Rethinking Heritage Language Education is an edited collection that brings together emerging and established researchers interested in the education field of Heritage Language Education to negotiate its concepts and practices, and investigate the correlation between culture and language from a pedagogic and cosmopolitical point of view. The scholars, who have contributed to the growth of Heritage Language Education as a discipline, reconsider and enrich their findings by drawing new lines across the boundaries of research and practice. It complements the previous work of these theorists, filling a void in the current literature around the question of Heritage Language Education.

Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts

Rethinking Bilingual Education in Postcolonial Contexts
Author: Feliciano Chimbutane
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2011-05-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847695019

This book calls for critical adaptations when theories of bilingual education, based on practices in the North, are applied to the countries of the global South. For example, it challenges the assumption that transitional models necessarily lead to language shift and cultural assimilation. Taking an ethnographically-based narrative on the purpose and value of bilingual education in Mozambique as a starting point, it shows how, in certain contexts, even a transitional model may strengthen the vitality of local languages and associated cultures, instead of weakening them. The analysis is based on the view that communicative practices in the classroom influence and are influenced by institutional, local and societal processes. Within this framework, the book shows how education in low-status languages can play a role in social and cultural transformation, especially where post-colonial contexts are concerned.

Rethinking Foreign Language Writing

Rethinking Foreign Language Writing
Author: Virginia Mitchell Scott
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Reviews the research of foreign language and ESL writing pedagogy and suggest new teaching methods for college and high school instructors based on recent developments in the field. Includes a comprehensive review of the literature, specific sugestions for activities and recommendations on integrating software into the writing curriculum.

With Literacy and Justice for All

With Literacy and Justice for All
Author: Carole Edelsky
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0805855076

This book helps education professionals understand the changing social, political, and economic conditions for language and literacy instruction and second language learning in particular contexts.

Rethinking Ethnic Studies

Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Author: R. Tolteka Cuauhtin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780942961027

As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K-12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic Studies brings together many of the leading teachers, activists, and scholars in this movement to offer examples of Ethnic Studies frameworks, classroom practices, and organizing at the school, district, and statewide levels. Built around core themes of indigeneity, colonization, anti-racism, and activism, Rethinking Ethnic Studies offers vital resources for educators committed to the ongoing struggle for racial justice in our schools.